Dr. Jensen Yeung

Dr. Jensen Yeung obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and his Doctor of Medicine from McMaster University in 2001. The same year, he began his dermatology residency training at the University of Toronto. During his residency training, he spent six months in Australia, New York, and Boston, gaining clinical experience and acquiring the newest knowledge in melanoma and dermoscopy from leading experts. In 2005, he was selected by the residency program as the co-chief resident for the year. Having obtained his board certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2006, Dr. Yeung joined the Faculty of Dermatology at the University of Toronto, where he ran teaching clinics at both Women’s College Hospital and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. In 2007, he was promoted to medical director for the Ricky Kanee Schachter (RKS) Dermatology Program at Women’s College Hospital, where he ran a melanoma, psoriasis, and General Dermatology clinic. In 2013, he switched from RKS to PERC. He took on the new role as the Medical Director of the Phototherapy Education and Research Centre (PERC), where he runs a weekly psoriasis and phototherapy clinic. In 2014, he and Dr. Dana Jerome started a monthly combined psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis clinic at PERC. From 2011 to 2020, he worked at Dr. Kim Papp’s research facility in Waterloo and participated in nearly 200 phase 1 to 4 clinical trials. Dr. Yeung has also supervised and mentored many research students and residents, which has led to more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. He is an associate editor at the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, Dermatology and Therapy, Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery (JCMS), and Canadian Dermatology Today. In addition, he is a Medical Board Member at the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) and a councilor at the International Psoriasis Council (IPC). He has received several teaching awards, including the Best Resident Teacher award in 2005, the 2008 Women’s College Hospital Department of Medicine Postgraduate Teaching Award, the 2009 University of Toronto Dermatology Postgraduate Program Staff Teaching Award, and the 2022-2023 University of Toronto Department of Medicine Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching Award